DUSHANBE, May 30, Asia-Plus – The 25th session of the CIS Interstate Council for Antimonopoly Policies was held in Moscow on May 29.
Addressing the session, Igor Artemyev, the head of the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service, noted that the Council’s activity is becoming more and more efficient and its members regularly exchange information that helps improve state policy on protection of competition as well as work out common approaches to studying CIS common markets.
The session discussed a system of control over compliance with competitive conditions when providing state support in the CIS member states and assessed competitive policies in developing common markets within the CIS area.
During the meeting it was noted that many positive changes had taken place in the CIS states and over the past year, some member nations of the CIS, including Tajikistan, Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, had made considerable changes to their legal foundations of activity of the antimonopoly agencies that had strengthened a role of competitive agency in formation of national economic policy.
The council members made a decision to have collected information about systems of sanctions for breaking antimonopoly legislation existing in the CIS states by September 2007 for considering this issue at one of the next sessions.
It was decided to hold the next 26th session of the CIS Interstate Antimonopoly Council in Baku, Azerbaijan.
